Pretty damned sad. You can see where they were actually moving towards a middle ground until Boehner just chucked everything and went with his pitiful "Plan B" -- one can only wonder what would have happened if they had continued bargaining (continuing the trend, probably about a 1:1 tax/cut ratio, which in any normal universe would be an equitable compromise ... which may be why Boehner bailed, knowing his universe is anything but normal) ...

Wall Street Journal has a handy calculator to see how much more you will pay on the 2 % hike , just type in your annul earning . Well not really a tax hike more like the Obama 2 % tax break is not renewed. You were paying into the 6.2 % before anyway. For me I will be paying 80 bucks a month more , so there goes any pay raise I get this year - oh well.

They could have raised the cut off for payroll taxes--now, anything you make over 125,000 (or something like that--I don't know the exact number) does not have the payroll tax assessed. But nooooooooo . . . that would be wrong.

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